Former leading New Zealand publisher and bookseller, and widely experienced judge of both the Commonwealth Writers Prize and the Montana New Zealand Book Awards, talks about what he is currently reading, what impresses him and what doesn't, along with chat about the international English language book scene, and links to sites of interest to booklovers.

Sunday, June 12, 2016

LitHub - Best of the week

LitHub
DailyBest of the Week: June 6 - 10, 2016

TODAY: In 1912,
Irish short story writer Mary Lavin is born.

·“I
think people probably miss those books that were written some time
ago–the big book that was written
with care.” An interview with Annie Proulx. | The Guardian

·“I had
the urge to keep the Maupassant stories for myself, to figure them out
on my own, to let their author
speak directly to me.” Sloane Crosley remembers the first
time she read “The Necklace.” | The
Paris Review

·Investigating
the axis of hunger, sex, and death: On recent books that use the female
body as a“Rorschach test for society’s deeper
anxieties about women’s roles.” | Los Angeles Review of Books

·“[I]f
you want to write novels, well, it’s understandable to hope you might write a
good one. But why does it have to be an American one?” An
interview with John Irving. | Hazlitt

·“In my
mind Ruth will always be wincing in the kitchen, squeezing
lemons. I will always be watching.” A short story by Anna
Noyes. | Electric Literature